India, March 18 -- President Donald Trump's focus on "America first" isn't about isolationism and the India-US partnership will grow and strengthen as the two sides engage within the Quad, tackle challenges in the Indo-Pacific, and work on security issues, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Tuesday.

Gabbard didn't refer to Trump's threat of imposing reciprocal tariffs from April 2 or to New Delhi's specific security concerns while speaking at the Raisina Dialogue, India's flagship conference on geopolitics, but sent out a strong signal of continuity in India-US ties that have burgeoned in the past two decades.

The first Hindu American to head the US intelligence community was in New Delhi to attend an internation...